Childhood and Innocence in American Culture

Heartaches and Nightmares
Herausgeber: Curtis, James M.

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Produktbeschreibung

This collection approaches the deconstruction of American "childhood" from a wide variety of critical, interdisciplinary lenses and gestures toward the construction of a more realistic, twenty-first century definition of "childhood"-one which is defined by the real-life struggles of childhood and not by romanticized notions of "innocence."

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Produktdetails

• Children and Youth in Popular Culture
• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 426g
• ISBN-13: 9781666940251
• ISBN-10: 1666940259
• Artikelnr.: 67990968

Autorenporträt

James M. Curtis is instructor of English at Louisiana State University Shreveport.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: "The Death of Childhood", James M. Curtis
Part One: Deconstructing 20th Century Childhood
Chapter One: "The Domesticated Adventuress: Dorothy Gale, Ozma of Oz, and
the Pitfalls of Princess-hood", Rodney Marcel Fierce
Chapter Two: "'A Place for You': Subjectivity and Representation in The
Brownies Book", James M. Curtis
Chapter Three: "Homecoming: Finding (and Losing) the American Child",
Rebecca Long
Part Two: Towards a More Postmodern Childhood: Challenging Childhood
"Innocence" in the Late 20th and Early 21st Century
Chapter Four: 'Growing Up Too Fast, Too Soon': The Child Prodigy in Late
Postmodernist Literature", Oliver J. Hancock
Chapter Five: "In Support of Idyllic Childhood: How Book Challenges Reveal
American Views on Childhood and Adolescent Innocence in the 1980s and into
the 21st Century", Sarah K. Mazur
Chapter Six: "Fear of Science in the Cold War and the Unknown Childhood:
The It's Alive Trilogy", Erika Tiburcio Moreno
Chapter Seven: "Four Little Activists: The Death of Black Childhood
Innocence in Spike Lee's 4 Little Girls", Douglas C. MacLeod, Jr.
Chapter Eight: "Technically I'm 112: Youth and Darkness in Avatar: the Last
Airbender", Colleen Etman